JP2013085551A - Method for cultivating sprout by using silver ion, and device for cultivating sprout by using silver ion - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To cultivate sprouts at home simply and without spending time, while protecting the same from sundry bacteria, etc., and harvesting a suitable amount of the sprouts lining up beautifully.SOLUTION: The sprouts are cultivated hygienically by installing a chamber having upper and lower 2 stages in a cultivation device body 1 to make the upper stage as cultivation chamber 17, installing a plurality of cultivation/harvest cases 20 for germinating and growing a suitable amount of the sprouts, installing cultivation beds 37 blended with silver ions at the cultivation stand 30 in the cultivation/harvest cases 20, sowing sprout seeds 80 as surrounded by the cultivation beds, and to make the lower stage as a water feeding chamber 18, installing a water feeding pump unit 50, making water feeding tray 41 as capable of being attached, detached and installed from the front surface, coating a visible light responding type photo catalyst on the inner wall of water feeding tray 41 and the outer wall of a body casing 11, preparing silver ion water by arranging silver ion pellets 45 at the inner bottom part of the water feeding tray 41 and spraying the ion water suitably from the upper part of the cultivation/harvest case 20 at the upper stage.

Description

  The present invention relates to a hygienic cultivation method for sprout, and supports silver ions, which are known to have antibacterial and antiviral properties, on a cultivation bed, and sown sprout seeds in a form that is wrapped in the cultivation bed. , Sprinkling water containing silver ions, germinating and growing, and cultivation apparatus for household sprout that can be cultivated so that the amount and interval of watering can be arbitrarily set and harvested easily Is.

  Traditionally, sprout is well known as a health food because it has a high nutritional value and can be ingested in small quantities, and has attracted more and more attention in recent years.

  In conventional cultivation equipment, the seed sowing medium is a mesh-like perforated resin plate tray, or a slotted perforated resin plate tray. It was something to do.

  Therefore, the roots rooted from the seeds enter the mesh of the tray made of perforated resin plate and get entangled, the roots are not easily pulled out, and the roots are cut and harvested at the lower end of the stem part, but in the next cultivation, The previous roots that were tangled in the mesh of the perforated resin tray must be peeled off, cleaned, washed, and reused, which is very laborious.

  Sprout is an ingredient that is often eaten raw, so there is a risk that it will rarely become a cause of food poisoning, and hygiene management and prevention of bacterial growth are very important factors in cultivation. It has become to.

  JP 2006-262844 A

However, in the above-mentioned conventional technology, at the time of harvesting, many components of the cultivation apparatus must be removed and the cultivation tray must be taken out.
When the sprout stalks are cut from the cultivation tray, removed, transferred, and washed, the cultivation tray has a large area, so it cannot be treated with a single bite and can be cut and harvested in several degrees, or the entire surface must be cut at once. In this case, the sprout stalks are separated and removed in several degrees, and the sprout stalks are in a separate collection state, and it is impossible to harvest the sprout stalks in a beautifully aligned state.
When the next cultivation is continued after the previous harvest, it takes much time and effort to remove and clean the root of the cultivation tray.

  Since there is no hygienic measure for cultivation water, there is a risk that it will become a source of odor if the cultivation water is not changed every day. there were.

  Since there is no function to adjust the amount of sprinkling according to the type of sprout seeds, there is a problem of root rot due to excessive moisture and lack of moisture depending on the seeds.

Since the optimal temperature for sprout seed germination is generally 15 ° C. or higher, growth in the winter season may be delayed depending on the season or region, and low-temperature measures are desired for stable production.
The present invention has been made to solve the above drawbacks.

The inside of the cultivation apparatus main body 1 is divided into two upper and lower stages, a cultivation room floor 13 is provided and divided in the middle, the upper stage is the cultivation room 17, the lower stage is the water supply room 18, the main body bottom plate 12 is provided at the bottom, and the side wall part As a main body casing 11, a main body cover 16 that houses 56 parts of the sprinkling arm that pivots is placed on the top.
Front surfaces of the cultivation room 17 and the water supply room 18 are each provided with an opening.

In the cultivation room 17, the cultivation and harvesting case 20 is mounted and integrated on a cultivation table 30 having a plurality of box-shaped top openings, and the cultivation room 17 is integrated and installed in parallel on the cultivation room floor 13.
An ultrathin silver ion-containing non-woven fabric or a silver ion-containing porous fiber sheet is folded into a pleat shape in the upper opening of the cultivation table 30 so that the sprout seeds 80 can be attached as the cultivation floor 37. The sprout seed 80 is sown along each groove portion of the pleated fold, and the sprout seed 80 is wrapped in the silver ion-containing nonwoven fabric that is the cultivation floor 37 by the diameter of the sprout seed 80 and the elasticity in the thickness direction of the nonwoven fabric. Form. The bottom of the box-shaped cultivation stand 30 is a water tank section 33, and overflow holes 35 are provided on both sides below the lower surface of the cultivation floor 37 so that the cultivation water can be stored by regulating the water level. An air layer 38 is provided between the lower surface of the cultivation floor 37.
Germinated sprout seed roots 81 extend downward from the fiber gaps in the cultivation floor and extend into the water tank portion 33.
The harvesting case 21 is mounted and set upward along the outer periphery of the cultivation table 30, and 82 parts of the sprout stalk grows therein.
A cutting guide port 22 is provided at a position slightly above the top of the cultivation stand on one side of the harvesting case 21, the upper side plate of the cutting guide port is removed, and a swinging side plate 23 is provided corresponding thereto, and a swinging fulcrum. 24 is connected as a fulcrum to form a box shape.
Overflow water from the cultivating stand water tank section 33 by watering is caused to flow into the water supply tray 41 in the lower water supply chamber 18 from the floor drain 14 provided in the cultivation room floor 13.

In the water supply chamber 18, a water supply tray 41, a check valve 44, a water supply pump 51, a heater unit 60, and the like are installed as the water supply unit 40.
The water supply tray 41 is provided with a check valve 44 on the back side, and when the tip of the check valve 44 is inserted into the water supply connection 52 on the front surface of the water supply pump 51, the check valve 44 is opened and the operation of the water supply pump 51 is performed. Then, the water for cultivation in the water supply tray 41 is supplied to the watering arm 56 through the water supply pipe 53, and is sprayed from a plurality of watering nozzles 57 provided on the left and right side surfaces and both end surfaces of the watering arm. The sprinkling arm 56 part turns around the rotation fulcrum 部 54 part by sprinkling reaction force, sprays evenly over a wide area in the upper body cover 16 of the cultivation apparatus main body 1, and is uniformly sprinkled from above into the cultivation harvesting case 20. . The remaining drops are guided and flowed down into the cultivation and harvesting case 20 by the sprinkling excess drop receiver 15 attached to the upper end of the main casing 11.
The water supply tray 41 can be easily attached to and detached from the water supply pump 51 side without leakage due to the action of the check valve 44. When the water supply tray 41 is inserted and installed in the normal position of the water supply chamber 18 from the front side, The heater unit mounting portion 46 is disposed on the heater unit 60 provided on the bottom plate 12 of the water supply chamber main body, and heat is transferred after contacting the outer periphery of the heater unit 60.
The heater unit 60 detects the installation of the water supply tray 41 and is automatically controlled to the set temperature.
The operation of the water supply pump 51 can be controlled by adjusting the watering time and interval by setting the power switch 71 and the watering timer knob 72.

A silver ion pellet 45 that can generate ion water having a constant concentration when titanium and pure silver are combusted and synthesized in the water tray 41 of the water supply tray 41 of the water supply unit 40 in which the water for cultivation is placed is placed.
The silver ion pellet 45 is commercially available as a product that can easily generate a certain concentration of silver ion water, and this may be used.
The silver ion concentration of the cultivation water is controlled to 80 to 90 ppb by contacting the cultivation floor 37 with the silver ion-containing nonwoven fabric and contacting the silver ion pellet 45 in the water supply tray 41. At this silver ion concentration, it is possible to exert powerful sterilization, antibacterial, and deodorizing capabilities while preventing germination and growth of most sprout and being safe for the human body.

The visible light responsive photocatalyst is coated on the outer wall surface of the main casing of the cultivation equipment and the inner wall surface of the water supply tray to utilize the sterilization, antibacterial and deodorant effects due to the photocatalytic effect.
As the photocatalyst, an apatite-coated type visible light responsive photocatalyst that hardly damages the resin material to be coated may be selected.

As described above, according to the present invention, the sprout can be subdivided and cultivated in a plurality of cultivation and harvesting cases, taken out for each cultivation and harvesting case, sandwiched and held by a swinging side plate, and cut at the lower end of the sprout stem. By removing the cultivation stand, the sprout stalks arranged in the harvest case can be washed as they are, and can be easily transferred to a cooking dish.
The cultivation floor can be easily removed together with the root and can be easily exchanged for each cultivation.
Effective effects such as sterilization and antibacterial action of silver ions can be exhibited during the entire period from germination of sprout to growth and harvest.
It also exhibits a photocatalytic effect, prevents bacterial adhesion and growth, and exhibits a deodorizing effect.
It is possible to provide a hygienic and reliable cultivation method and cultivation apparatus for home cultivation of sprout.

It is a front view of the cultivation apparatus which shows an example of implementation of the present invention. It is a right view of the cultivation apparatus which shows an example of implementation of this invention. FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the main part, taken along line BB in FIG. 2, illustrating an example of the implementation of the present invention. It is an AA arrow view of FIG. 1 which shows an example of implementation of this invention, and principal part sectional drawing. It is a top view of the cultivation apparatus which shows an example of implementation of this invention. It is a top view of the cultivation apparatus in the state where body cover 16 was removed. It is a cultivation room floor top view which shows the floor part of the cultivation room in a main body casing. It is a top view of the water supply unit part arrange | positioned in a water supply chamber, and shows the state which supplied and installed the silver ion pellet. In the rear view of the water supply tray, the check valve 44 and the water supply pump 51 are omitted. The expanded principal part sectional drawing of a heater unit is shown. FIG. 1A is an enlarged view showing sprout seeds. FIG. (B) shows an enlarged cross-sectional view of a pleated nonwoven fabric cultivation bed carrying silver ions. Fig. (C) is an enlarged cross-sectional view showing a state where seeds are sown on a cultivation bed carrying silver ions. Fig. (D) is an enlarged cross-sectional view showing a state where seeds are sown on a cultivation bed carrying silver ions and installed on a cultivation table. Arrow Y represents the sowing direction of the sprout seed to the cultivation floor. The arrow Z represents the mounting direction of the cultivation bed seeded with sprout seeds on the cultivation stand. The figure (e) shows the top view of the cultivation stand equipped with the cultivation harvest case of the state which removed the cultivation floor. The figure (f) shows the top view of the state which attached the cultivation floor to the cultivation stand which set the cultivation harvest case. The attachment / detachment direction (arrow SR) of a harvesting case and a cultivation stand is shown, the harvesting case shows a right side view, and the cultivation stand shows a cross-sectional view in the front-rear direction. It is a sectional view of a harvest case and a cultivation stand for showing the harvest method at the time of harvest. Arrow X represents the movement of the swinging side plate during harvesting.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

1 to 2 are external views of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 1 is a front view, FIG. 2 is a right side view, the inside of the cultivation apparatus main body 1 is divided into two upper and lower stages, and the cultivation is performed in the middle. The floor 13 is provided and partitioned, the upper stage is the cultivation room 17, the lower stage is the water supply chamber 18, the front side is the opening, the main body bottom plate 12 is provided at the bottom, and the side wall is raised to form the main body casing 11. . The main casing 11 is made of a transparent resin that transmits light.
A resin main body cover 16 that does not transmit light is detachably mounted on the uppermost portion of the main body casing 11.
A power switch 71 and a watering timer switch 72 are provided on the outer right side wall portion of the water supply chamber 18 of the main casing 11 and controlled by a control circuit (not shown).

3-4 shows principal part sectional drawing of the cultivation apparatus main body 1. FIG.
A plurality of cultivation and harvesting cases 20 are installed in parallel in the cultivation room, and can be subdivided so that sprout cultivation and harvesting can be performed.
The cultivation and harvesting case 20 is formed in a box shape by a harvesting case 21 and a swinging side plate 23 having a swinging fulcrum 24, and a cutting guide port 22 for guiding a cutting knife is provided at the lower end of the swinging side plate 23.
The harvesting case 21 and the swinging side plate 23 are made of transparent resin so that the growth state of the sprout 82 can be seen from the front, and a box-shaped cultivation stand 30 having an open top surface is mounted on the inner bottom portion thereof.
On the cultivation stand 30, an ultrathin silver ion-containing non-woven fabric is folded in a pleat shape at the upper end opening, and is arranged as a cultivation bed 37 for sprout seeds 80. A box-shaped side plate of the cultivation table 30 is used as a cultivation table wall 31 and a rib 34 is appropriately provided on the inner wall of the cultivation table wall 31 to hold the cultivation bed 37 in a fixed position.
The sprout seed 80 is sown along each pleated crease groove, and the seed is wrapped in a silver ion-containing nonwoven fabric, which is the cultivation floor 37, by the diameter of the sprout seed and the elasticity in the thickness direction of the nonwoven fabric. . An inner bottom portion of the cultivation stand side wall 31 is used as a water tank portion 33, and overflow holes 35 are provided on both side walls below the lower surface of the cultivation floor 37 so that the water level can be regulated so that the cultivation water can be stored. An air layer 38 is provided between the lower surface of the cultivation floor 37. Overflow water from the cultivating table water tank 33 due to watering falls from the floor drain 14 provided in the cultivation room floor 13 through the cultivation notch 25 and flows into the water supply tray 41 in the lower stage and the water supply room 18. The material of the cultivation floor 37 is a silver ion-containing nonwoven fabric or a silver ion-containing porous fiber sheet. The roots 81 of the sprout seeds 80 that have sprouted extend downward from the fiber gaps of the cultivation floor 37 and extend into the water tank portion 33.
The harvesting case 21 is mounted and set upward along the outer periphery of the cultivation table 30, and the sprout stem portion 82 grows therein.
At the time of harvesting, an arbitrary cultivation harvest case 20 is taken out from the cultivation room 17, the swing side plate 23 is moved, the sprout stem 82 is pressed and fixed, and a cutting knife is inserted from the cutting guide port 22 as shown by a cutting line 83 and the sprout stem is inserted. 82 is cut out, the detachable overhanging portion 32 is pushed down, and the cultivation table 30 is removed from the cultivation and harvesting case 20.
Thereby, the cultivation harvesting case 20 and the sprout stem 82 part can be washed with water as they are, and the sprout stem 82 can be transferred to the cooking dish.

In the water supply chamber 18, a transparent resin water supply tray 41, a check valve 44, a water supply pump 51, a heater unit 60, and the like are installed as the water supply unit 40.
In the water supply tray 41, a check valve 44 is attached to the water supply port 43h on the back side through a seal packing, and when the check valve 44 portion is inserted into the water supply connection portion 52 on the front surface of the water supply pump 51, the check valve 44 is opened. Then, the water for cultivation in the water supply tray 41 is sucked from the suction port 43 by the operation of the water supply pump 51, supplied to the watering arm 56 through the water supply pipe 53, and a plurality of the water provided on the left and right side surfaces and both end surfaces of the watering arm 56. Water is sprayed from the water nozzle 57. The sprinkling arm 56 part turns like a turning trajectory circle 58 around the rotation fulcrum 54 part as a central fulcrum by the reaction force of the water spray, and evenly sprays water over a wide area in the upper main body cover 16 of the cultivation apparatus body 1, and in the cultivation harvest case 20 Sprinkle evenly from above. The remaining drops are guided into the cultivation and harvesting case 20 by the sprinkling remaining drop receiver 16 attached to the upper end of the main casing 11 and fall. The cultivation room floor 13 is provided with a through hole 53h through which the water supply pipe 53 passes.
The water supply tray 41 can be easily attached to and detached from the water supply connection portion 52 on the water supply pump 51 side without leakage due to the action of the check valve 44, and the water supply tray 41 can be attached to the water supply tray 41 from the front direction with the handle portion 42 of the water supply tray 41. When inserted and installed at a regular position in the water supply chamber 18, the heater mounting portion 46 of the water supply tray 41 is placed on the heater unit 60 provided on the main body bottom plate 12 in the water supply chamber 18, and heat is transferred from the heater unit 60.
The heater unit 60 detects the installation of the water supply tray 41 and is automatically controlled to the set temperature.
The heater unit 60 has a cylindrical cross section of a long heater body 63 filled with an antifreeze liquid 62 in an elastic heat transfer tube 61 and sealed together, and is fixed on a heater mounting base 64.
The operation of the water supply pump 51 is such that the watering time and interval can be adjusted and controlled by setting the watering timer knob 72 with the power switch 71 turned on.

A silver ion pellet 45 that can generate ion water having a constant concentration when titanium and pure silver are combusted and synthesized in the water tray 41 of the water supply tray 41 of the water supply unit 40 in which the water for cultivation is placed is placed.
The silver ion pellet 45 is commercially available as a product that can easily generate silver ion water having a certain concentration, and may be used.
The silver ion concentration of the cultivation water is controlled to a concentration of 80 to 90 ppb by contacting the cultivation floor 37 with the silver ion-containing nonwoven fabric and contacting the silver ion pellet 45 in the water supply tray 41, and this silver ion concentration is almost The sprout can be germinated and cultivated, and it is safe for the human body, while exhibiting powerful antibacterial, antibacterial and deodorant capabilities.

The outer wall surface of the transparent resin main body casing 11 of the cultivation apparatus 1 and the inner wall surface of the transparent resin water supply tray 41 are coated with a visible light responsive photocatalyst to utilize the sterilization, antibacterial, and deodorant effects due to the photocatalytic effect.
As the visible light responsive photocatalyst, an apatite-coated visible light responsive photocatalyst that hardly damages the resin material to be coated may be used.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Cultivation apparatus main body 11 Main body casing 16 Main body cover 17 Cultivation room 18 Water supply room 20 Cultivation harvest case 21 Harvest case 23 Swing side plate 30 Cultivation stand 33 Water tank part 35 Overflow hole 37 Cultivation floor 40 Water supply unit 41 Water supply tray 44 Check valve 45 Silver ion pellet 50 Water supply pump unit 51 Water supply pump 60 Heater unit 80 Sprout seed

Claims (7)

  A silver ion-containing nonwoven fabric or silver ion-containing porous fiber sheet is folded into a pleated shape at the top opening of the box-shaped cultivation table, and sprout seeds are sown in the fold groove of the cultivation floor and sprinkled as appropriate to germinate A method for growing sprout using silver ions, characterized by growing.   An overflow hole for cultivation water is provided on the side of the cultivation stand, an air layer is obtained below the cultivation floor, a water tank part is provided across the air layer, and the germinated sprout root extends to the water tank part. It grows, The cultivation method of the sprout using the silver ion of Claim 1 characterized by the above-mentioned.   The metal pellet which elutes silver ion in the water for cultivation in a water supply tray is immersed, the silver ion water is produced | generated, and the water containing silver ion is used as water for cultivation. Sprout cultivation method using silver ions.   A room is provided on the upper and lower two levels in the front direction of the cultivation device main body, the front is opened, the upper stage is the cultivation room, the lower stage is the water supply room, a water supply tray is provided in which water for cultivation is placed in the water supply room, and the water supply tray is opened from the front. It is connected to the water supply pump as detachable without leakage, and at the same time, when the water supply tray is installed at a fixed position, the heater unit comes into contact with the water supply tray to transfer heat, and the water supply pump is driven by the water supply pump. The cultivation water is fed from the water spray nozzle, sprinkled from the sprinkling nozzle provided on the watering arm placed at the upper position in the main body of the cultivation device, swirling the watering arm itself, and a plurality of cultivation harvest cases installed in parallel in the cultivation room A sprout cultivation apparatus using silver ions, characterized in that water can be sprayed on a cultivation floor containing silver ions of a cultivation table mounted on the bottom. At the bottom of the cultivation / harvest case, a cultivating stand with a box-shaped top and a cultivation floor attached is detachably mounted, and an opening as a cutting guide port is located slightly above the cultivation floor on one side plate of the cultivation / harvest case. The silver plate according to claim 4, wherein the upper side plate is removed from the cutting guide port, and a swinging side plate capable of sandwiching a sprout stem that swings and grows in the cultivation and harvesting case is disposed at the position. The sprout cultivation equipment used.   5. The silver ion according to claim 4, wherein a metal pellet that elutes silver ions is immersed in water for cultivation in a water supply tray to produce silver ion water, and water containing silver ions is used as water for cultivation. Sprout cultivation equipment using   The water supply tray for water for cultivation is made of transparent resin and the inner surface is coated with a visible light responsive photocatalyst. The main body casing of the cultivation device is made of transparent resin and the outer wall surface is coated with a visible light responsive photocatalyst. 5. A sprout cultivation apparatus using silver ions according to claim 4, wherein the apparatus exhibits a photocatalytic action when hit.

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